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Ever heard of GameFly? It’s what Netflix used to be, but for video games: mail-order disc rentals for Xbox, Playstation and Nintendo titles. It’s neat, but slow. Today, the company launched something a little faster: GameFly Streaming, a cloud gaming service for the Amazon Fire TV.
Like Nvidia’s Grid or Sony’s PlayStation Now, GameFly’s new service pipes high-end graphics to your TV from remote servers—but the selection is pretty bare. Right now, GameFly only offers 35 games to stream, and they’re all bundled into genre-specific subscription packages that go for $7 to $10 a month. Want to play Lego Batman and Batman: Arkham City? You’ll have to buy two separate subscription packages to get them both.
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$7 a month sounds like an affordable price for playing 35 streaming games on the Fire TV.